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Vražedná lhůta by Andreas Gruber
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKdyž do 48 hodin zjistíte, proč jsem tu ženu unesl, zůstane naživu. Pokud ne, zemře.Tímto poselstvím začíná perverzní hra sériového vraha. Nechává své oběti vyhladovět, utopit v inkoustu nebo je zaživa zalije do betonu. Mnichovská komisařka Sabine Nemezová zoufale hledá nějaké vysvětlení, motiv... -
Vanished by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Cheyenne Police Department doesn't handle many murders. So when a woman is found mutilated and crucified, Detective Kyle Dixon catches a case where all the evidence has long since been destroyed... -
Once Missed by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA serial killer is striking seemingly at random, first killing a man in his 50s, then a woman in her 50s. The only thing that links them is the lone souvenir he took: a dining chair... -
Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEn 2008, Julie, dix-sept ans, disparaît en ne laissant comme trace que son vélo posé contre un arbre. Le drame agite Sagas, petite ville au cœur des montagnes, et percute de plein fouet le père de la jeune fille, le lieutenant de gendarmerie Gabriel Moscato. Ce dernier se lance alors dans une enquête aussi désespérée qu'effrénée.Jusqu'à ce jour où ses pas le mènent à l'hôtel de la Falaise.. -
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The Dark Web Murders by Brian O'Hare
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI am Nemein. I am emotionally detached from my killings. I am not, therefore, a murderer. I am an instrument of Nemesis, a punisher. This is a theme running through a number of blogs on the Dark Web, written by a serial killer. He is highly intelligent and employs philosophical argument to justify a series of gruesome murders... -
Lone Wolf by L.T. Vargus, E.M. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe package arrives first class. A manila envelope bulging with bubble wrap. With the top slit open, what lies within can just faintly be seen: A swath of human flesh sealed in plastic.When a popular podcaster receives a disturbing package in the mail, FBI profiler Victor Loshak heads to Denver to investigate. The grisly contents of the bubble mailer are unlike anything he’s seen... -
I Am Sal by Abraham Falls
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat if you were born as a fully formed adult? Completely aware of your surroundings, fully able to speak, walk, think, and recognize, by name, all of the items you could see? The only thing missing, the only nagging void in your memory: your identity... -
Judgment of The Witch by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a decade, New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon returns with an epic novel of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time.... The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe their town is cursed by a witch... -
M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense: A Novelization by Peter Lerangis, M. Night Shyamalan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is the novelization of the box office hit "The Sixth Sense" about a terrified boy with a huge secret and a tormented child psychologist who needs a shot at redemption. Both are trapped in a world where nothing is what it seems... -
Blood of the Faithful by Michael Wallace, Arielle DeLisle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNow that their latest battle is over, the religious residents of Blister Creek are dealing with their losses and trying to heal—physically and spiritually. Their leader, Jacob Christianson, now feels the full burden of the responsibility and finds himself at a crossroads: keep the believers isolated, or see what lies beyond Blister Creek’s borders... -
The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I've left clues for you, and clues for the police. They'll be searching for you. The evidence at the scene of Officer Knight's death is enough to send you both to jail." "Who am I searching for?" The Voice laughs. That strange, dangerous laugh. "Me, of course." *** It was supposed to be just one more ridealong, a night when high schooler Melissa Latham accompanies her father on his patrol... -
Hideout by Jack Heath
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA tense, unputdownable thriller from the author of Hangman.Timothy Blake has nothing to lose. He's headed to an isolated house in rural Texas with a hammer in his pocket and murder on his mind. His target is Fred, the ringleader of a criminal empire on the dark web. Once Fred is gone, Blake can disappear for good.But it turns out that Fred isn't alone. Five other psychopaths live in the house... -
The Harbinger Collection: Hard-Boiled Mysteries Not for the Faint of Heart by Carolyn McCray
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Harbinger CollectionA Patterson-style set of thrillers with a dash of Hannibal.. -
La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIl existe, quelque part en Asie du Sud-Est, entre le tropique du Cancer et la ligne de l'Equateur, une autre ligne. Une ligne noire jalonnée de corps et d'effroi.. -
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Long Gone by Paul Pilkington
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe brand new mystery series from the author of the bestselling Emma Holden Trilogy and Kindle Number One Someone to Save You...A missing girl... Natalie Long is missing. About to board a high speed train from London’s Paddington station, she has vanished without a trace.Just two days earlier, things were so different... -
Atomka by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA pocos días de Navidad, un suceso de gran envergadura irrumpe en las vidas de Lucie Hennebelle y Franck Sharko, policías de la famosa sección criminal del número 36 del Quai des Orfèvres... -
The Murders in the Rue Morgue: And the Purloined Letter [With CD (Audio)] by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDo your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them the individual attention they deserve... -
Deuils de miel by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMeurtre dans une église ... Une femme nue, rasée, intérieurement explosée...Sur son crane, des papillons, vivants... un message codé, gravé dans la pierre ... la menace de fléaux... Le mythe de l apocalypse et ses multitudes de victimes deviendra-t-il réalité ? C est ce que le commissaire Sharko tentera d empêcher, par tous les moyens, au cours d une enquête plus qu éprouvante... -
Entwined by Lynda La Plante
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo matter how cruelly twins are separated, their lives will always be entwined.In the newly liberated streets of modern Berlin two women, a pampered, beautiful Baroness, losing control of her mind, and a fearless wild animal trainer, facing the greatest challenge of her career, are drawn together by a series of tragic and extraordinary coincidences... -
The Dying Place by Luca Veste
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“No one believes you. Nothing you say is the truth.” DI Murphy and DS Rossi discover the body of known troublemaker Dean Hughes, dumped on the steps of St Mary’s Church in West Derby, Liverpool. His body is covered with the unmistakable marks of torture. As they hunt for the killer, they discover a worrying pattern. Other teenagers, all young delinquents, have been disappearing without a trace... -
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Nursery Rhyme Murders Collection by Carolyn McCray, Ben Hopkin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the #1 author in Police Procedurals and Crime Fiction comes the Nursery Rhyme Murders Collection! Praise for the Nursery Rhymes Murders... “Come for the murder, stay for the three-dimensional, realistically fractured characters! … Long plane rides and rainy Saturday afternoons were made for books like this. If you like your suspense with a side of gruesome and a dash of humor, this is it... -
The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler turns his crime fiction expertise to that highly unique and unusual short story form: the locked room mystery, or impossible crime tale, in this anthology of more than 60 stories. A VINTAGE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL.The locked-room mystery may be the perfect form of mystery short story... -
Waterborne by J. Luke Bennecke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA thought-provoking thriller about a very real threat to the essence of life: water. You'll be forced to consider how you'd react if you were cornered and trapped in a terrifying, life-threatening situation... -
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L'Anneau de Moebius by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLamorlaye (Oise)Vous rêvez. Vous vous voyez courir dans votre maison, les mains en sang. La police vous recherche pour le meurtre d’une gamine que vous ne connaissez pas. Vous vous réveillez. Et vous comprenez que ces rêves sont votre futur. Vous, dans quelques jours…Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis)Le corps mutilé d’une femme, enduit de vinaigre. Il semble avoir fait l’objet d’un rituel bien précis... -
Watch Me by James Carol
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Dead LawyerEagle Creek, Louisiana. Lawyer Sam Galloway is burned alive in an apparently motiveless attack. The local sheriff's department calls in former FBI profiler Jefferson Winter to consult on the case.A Serial KillerSo far there's just one body, but there are going to be more... -
El libro negro de las horas by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlguien que lleva muerto cuarenta años no puede ser secuestrado y, desde luego, no puede sangrar.Vitoria, 2022... -
Dangerous Behavior: A Novel by Walter Marks
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom an Emmy award-winning author comes a high-voltage psychological thriller, whose film rights have already been sold to Paramount/Scott Rudin... -
Choked by Tania Carver
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsChoked is the fourth high concept thriller from Tania Carver, the international bestselling author of The Surrogate, The Creeper and Cage Of Bones.Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and criminal psychologist Marina Esposito have just returned from their honeymoon and are spending the Easter weekend in Suffolk with their baby daughter Josephina and Phil's adoptive parents... -
Murder at Shijinso by Masahiro Imamura
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHamura Yuzuru, seorang mahasiswa tahun pertama, terpaksa ikut sebuah acara menginap di Vila Shijinsō bersama senior penggemar misteri.Akan tetapi, pada hari pertama, mereka segera berhadapan dengan zombie-zombie yang tiba-tiba menyerang dan mengurung mereka di dalam vila... -
King of Swords by Nick Stone
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSuch was the acclaim that greeted Nick Stone's amazing debut novel, Mr Clarinet, that a curious syndrome soon developed: if you hadn't read the novel (and claimed to have any interest in the crime genre), you had to say (to all who would listen) 'I really must read Mr Clarinet -- I've heard so much about it!' (preferably said with a pronounced guilty note in the voice)... -
65 Proof - Jack Daniels and Other Thriller Stories by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJA Konrath, author of the Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels thrilller series (Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, Cherry Bomb, Shaken) offers a gigantic 180,000 word collection of sixty-five previously published short stories from the thriller, horror, and comedy genres, including many from his award-winning series... -
Crab Town by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this town, everyone's a bottom feeder ... Five desperate criminals are robbing one of the last remaining banks in Freedom City, a town devastated by the previous nuclear war. But these are no ordinary criminals. They are members of the House of Cards, an organization designed to help the less fortunate citizens of the city... -
Black Beast by R.S. Guthrie
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDecorated Denver Detective Bobby Macaulay has faced down a truckload of tragedy over recent years. The death of his partner; the loss of his own leg in the line of duty; the companionship of his beloved wife to cancer; his faith in God to his inner demons... -
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Blood World by Chris Mooney
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA drug that makes the blood of carriers a fountain of youth, a psychopath who doesn't care how many bodies he leaves in his wake, and an LAPD detective hopelessly compromised by a dark secret. Together, they're an explosive mix that's going to shatter the city of Los Angeles into a million corpuscles. The most valuable commodity on earth is the blood of "carriers... -
Deadly Thyme by R.L. Nolen
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA girl disappears in this psychological suspense set in a sleepy coast village in Cornwall, England where many of the inhabitants are keeping secrets. One secret is deadly... -
Tränen aus Blut by Mark Roderick
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSie heißt Emilia Ness und arbeitet bei Interpol. Er heißt Avram Kuyper und ist Profikiller. Gemeinsam jagen sie einen bestialischen Mörder. Jeder auf seine Weise. ›Post Mortem - Tränen aus Blut‹ ist der erste Band des großen Zweiteilers von Mark Roderick: schockierend, aufwühlend und mega-spannend... -
Train d'enfer pour Ange rouge by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDepuis six mois que Suzanne a disparu, le commissaire Franck Sharko erre dans un monde peuplé de ténèbres. La découverte d'un cadavre cruellement mutilé, en une mise en scène défiant l'imagination, va le propulser au cœur d'une implacable machinerie meurtrière. Un voyage hallucinant et halluciné, des carrières granitiques bretonnes aux sordides backrooms sadomasos de Paris.. -
Cage of Bones by Tania Carver
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsInto the house. Down the stairs. Through the dripping dark of the cellar. Someone is there. Someone that shouldn't be there.As a building awaits demolition, a horrifying discovery is made inside the basement: a cage made of human bones - with a terrified, feral child lurking within... -
Falling by Christopher Pike
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn Falling, Christopher Pike explores the depth and breadth of human emotion through two brilliantly etched characters: Kelly Feinman, who pays a terrible price to understand the nature of true evil; and Matt Connor, a classic anti-hero who captures the reader's sympathy... -
从前我死去的家 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book collects emotions and thoughts of the author, Higashino Keigo. Childhood was a blank to him until he found a key and a map inside of a bag his father left him. His intuition told him that this key can help him recover memory. He followed the map and arrived at an vacant house... -
Esperando al diluvio by Dolores Redondo
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsEntre los años 1968 y 1969, el asesino al que la prensa bautizaría como John Biblia mató a tres mujeres en Glasgow. Nunca fue identificado y el caso todavía sigue abierto hoy en día. En esta novela, a principios de los años ochenta, el investigador de policía escocés Noah Scott Sherrington logra llegar hasta John Biblia, pero un fallo en su corazón en el último momento le impide arrestarlo... -
The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood by Andrew M. Greeley
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Blackwood, there's trouble in the old neighborhood! Murder in the sanctuary of the Church!" The church in question is St. Lucy's, a humble edifice at the heart of a venerable Chicago neighborhood now suffering the throes of gentrification. St. Lucy's has long stood as a bulwark against evil and change, which some in the community have often seen as much the same thing... -
The Murder at Skellin Cottage by Amy Cross
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSkellin Cottage is an oasis of peace and tranquillity. Miles from the nearest town, nestled far out in the English countryside, it's the perfect place for visitors who want to get away from the world for a while. And then one morning the cottage's latest tenant, Deborah Dean, is found brutally murdered... -
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Ο χρυσός σκαραβαίος. Το μακρόστενο κιβώτιο by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΟ Έντγκαρ Άλαν Πόε (1809-1849) έγινε περισσότερο γνωστός για τις μακάβριες ιστορίες του. Είναι ένας από τους πρώτους Αμερικανούς που έγραψαν διηγήματα και θεωρείται ότι επινόησε το αστυνομικό διήγημα. "Ο χρυσός σκαραβαίος" πήρε το πρώτο βραβείο σε ένα διαγωνισμό που διοργανώθηκε από την εφημερίδα "Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper", και δημοσιεύθηκε σε συνέχειες αρχίζοντας από τον Ιούνιο του 1843... -
Siberian Light by Robin White
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA man lies dead, sprawled in the bedroom of apartment #8. Rock music blares as two militiamen follow the bloody trail upstairs. . . and into the quick, cold slice of a razor-edged blade.The victim was a criminal. But two honest cops were killed with him. Gregori Nowek, mayor of the small Siberian town, is ordered to investigate... -
A Candidate for Murder by Joan Lowery Nixon
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA suspense novel set in the world of politics. With her father running for governor of Texas, Cary is determined to find out why she appears to be in danger. "Nixon is back doing the kind of book she does best... an inviting read... -
Playing for Keeps by Joan Lowery Nixon
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRosie can’t believe her good luck. Her grandmother, Glory, needs a last-minute roommate for a cruise to the Caribbean. Glory doesn’t really need a companion–she’s eager for Rosie to meet her friend’s grandson, Neil, a brainy guy full of facts about baseball. Once Rosie is aboard the ship, though, someone else catches her eye–a boy her own age, who introduces himself as Ricky Diago... -
A Cold Mind by David L. Lindsey
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomewhere in the sprawling city of Houston, a psychopath s stalking his victims. Each is a high-priced call girl trained and groomed for the pleasure of high-powered gentlemen. Each is found murdered, her body twisted in a climax of agony, defying medical explanation. but most chilling of all is that the killer is coldly efficient, leaving behind no clues, no motives, no evidence... -
Đau thương đến chết : tiểu thuyết. T.1 by Quỷ Cổ Nữ, rần Hữu Nùng
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMột nhóm thanh niên đi du lịch đến thắng cảnh Tân Thường Cóc, nơi có hang Thập Tịch đặt những cỗ quan tài treo huyền bí. Trước khi vào hang, họ đã được nghe lời tiên tri rùng rợn của một nhân vật bí hiểm. Nhưng họ vẫn khăng khăng phải vào tham quan hang này. Bi kịch đã xảy ra, lời tiên tri chẳng khác gì một lời nguyền, những cái chết lần lượt đến với họ...
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